Ukraine will not be responsible for the safety of the Russian humanitarian aid convoy passing through the area controlled by pro-Russian paramilitary groups operating in the country's east, said Valeriy Chaly, the deputy chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration.
“Ukraine is not responsible for safety in the zone controlled by militants,” Chaly said at a briefing in Kyiv on Aug. 19.
This is the responsibility of “those who control the situation there and of their bosses,” he said. From the start, Ukraine has been suggesting a checkpoint in the Kharkiv region: “there we would have been responsible for safety,” the deputy chief of the presidential administration said.
He stressed that the entire logistics are the responsibility of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and this matter has been agreed with it.
